Amethi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is on a
two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi, faced protests
from unhappy residents for the second day in a row today. While he faced
angry college girls yesterday, villagers protesting against lack of
roads confronted him today.Villagers from Chachkapur gathered outside Rahul Gandhi's guest house this morning and shouted slogans, asking him to leave Amethi. This forced the young MP to invite them for talks.
Yesterday, on the first day of his visit, girls from Rajkiya Balika Inter College blocked the road which Mr Gandhi was to take on his way to inaugurate a bank branch. The students were reportedly upset over lack of basic amenities in their college.
Mr Gandhi's cavalcade was diverted to another route after local intelligence unit alerted the Special Protection Group (SPG) about the protests. The students later raised slogans and condemned the MP for not meeting them.
Mr
Gandhi is in Amethi to attend a District Monitoring and Vigilance
Committee meeting at the collectorate, party sources said. He is
expected to meet party workers, distribute tricycles in Salon area and
take part in a closed door workers' meet in Jamo area before leaving for
Delhi, sources added.In the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls held earlier this year, the Congress lost eight out of the 10 Assembly seats in the twin Lok Sabha constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli despite Rahul Gandhi campaigning extensively in the state. While Mr Gandhi is an MP from Amethi, his mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi is an MP from Rae Bareli. The Congress has had a stronghold in both these constituencies since decades.
(With inputs from Agencies)
